Hi All,
Currently at Bee College in St. Augustine. Updates as I can. currently in class. They have an open node. So I have internet access.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
First lecture on bee Biology done.Lecture was by Jason Graham.
Then Malcolm Sanford spoke on bee equipment.
Amanda Ellis is speaking on hive products.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Good news!! What is the cost? May try a few online classes. :)
sorry for delay at lunch and then lab work. With the exam it was $190.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Just did the hands on bee exam.
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Brendhan
Day 2 of the bee College.
Keith Delaplane is keynote speaker.
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Brendhan
Keith Delaplane has basically stated beekeepers need to go chemical free. It is nice to see they are catching up with the rest of us.
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Brendhan
I hope this video comes through when I am done. Keith is saying that Insemination equiment is not cost prohibitive. Sorry Keith, but 3 grand is a lot of money.
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Brendhan
Keith says Screened bottom boards are generally a good thing based on the averages.
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Brendhan
Keith confirms there is a quality issue in bee genetics.
I right now hate being ahead of the curve.
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Brendhan
In the honey house standards class. Honey house rules are way to restrictive.
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Brendhan
Virginia Webb is singing.
She is doing the presentation on green beekeeping.
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Brendhan
Virginia Webb has some very cool green ideas. I will have to share those later.
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Brendhan
Honey Export discussion. Doug is awesome.
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Brendhan
David gives Dee Lusby an awesome plug.
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Brendhan
In Bill Kern's first responder course.
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Brendhan
I meet rast (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?action=profile;u=4871) at the college here. Very cool guy.
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Brendhan
Quote from: Understudy on March 20, 2009, 09:35:45 AM
Keith Delaplane has basically stated beekeepers need to go chemical free. It is nice to see they are catching up with the rest of us.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Yes it is. I have an older beekeeping book by him and he was using chemicals at that time.
Sounds like you are having fun
Quote from: Understudy on March 20, 2009, 10:26:27 AM
In the honey house standards class. Honey house rules are way to restrictive.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Wow I didn't know there were standards. Will you share these with us later on??
Quote from: annette on March 20, 2009, 04:09:05 PM
Quote from: Understudy on March 20, 2009, 10:26:27 AM
In the honey house standards class. Honey house rules are way to restrictive.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Wow I didn't know there were standards. Will you share these with us later on??
No, they are all mine and you can't have any. ;)
Of course I will share. Remember rules that apply to Florida may not apply to your state.
Give me some time there will be a lot of editing.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Saturday Day 3.
I am now in Nancy Gentry's class.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
What kind of test do they give you are do they.
Quote from: Irwin on March 21, 2009, 12:06:44 PM
What kind of test do they give you are do they.
There was a hands on test and a written exam.
I had the overall highest score on both.
I took the apprentice level because that is what you have to take the first time no matter how long you have been keeping bees.
Currently in the Bee Treatment class.
I am causing problems.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Done with bee treatments.
We talked about the acrobat ant at the end.
Heading into the dissection class.
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Brendhan
Dr. Ellis is running a little late.
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Brendhan
It's over. Time to head home.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Whatever Brendhan shares, give him a standup ovation. He busted his butt videoing what he could (along with putting instructors on the hot seat during some Q & A's).
Quote from: rast on March 21, 2009, 06:31:44 PM
Whatever Brendhan shares, give him a standup ovation. He busted his butt videoing what he could (along with putting instructors on the hot seat during some Q & a's).
Thanks for the kind words. i still have to edit all this stuff. I have over 50 gigs of mpegs to edit.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Quote from: Understudy on March 21, 2009, 10:15:03 PM
Quote from: rast on March 21, 2009, 06:31:44 PM
Whatever Brendhan shares, give him a standup ovation. He busted his butt videoing what he could (along with putting instructors on the hot seat during some Q & a's).
Thanks for the kind words. i still have to edit all this stuff. I have over 50 gigs of mpegs to edit.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
When I get my high speed I'll be watching them it's a real drag to with dial up
Okay here are the videos from Bee College. A couple of notes.
1. The videos are hosted on Vimeo and not YouTube because they are more than 10 minutes long and I really don't like having to edit them to 10 minute segments for YouTube.
2. I have several issues with YouTube. While I have some of my short videos there. I probably will start migrating my videos over to vimeo.
3. Because they are on vimeo I cannot do an embed.
4. I have a lot of comments to add about each video but I haven't had time.
Thursday
Bee Biology
http://vimeo.com/3808120
Beekeeping Equipment
http://vimeo.com/3810847
Hive Production
http://vimeo.com/3812248
Keeping Bees in Florida
http://vimeo.com/3814741
Bee Diseases
http://vimeo.com/3844552
Friday
Keynote
http://vimeo.com/3844691
Honey House Standards
http://vimeo.com/3844773
Green Beekeeping
http://vimeo.com/3844882
Exporting Honey
http://vimeo.com/3848279
First Responder pt 1
http://vimeo.com/3860498
First Responder pt 2
http://vimeo.com/3864104
Saturday
Keynote
http://vimeo.com/3914590
Sustainable Beekeeping
http://vimeo.com/3915222
Honey Standard
http://vimeo.com/3916050
Marketing
http://vimeo.com/3917137
Bee Treatments
http://vimeo.com/3920513
Tracheal and Nosema
http://vimeo.com/3933352
Apologies to those on dial up.
Yes I expect you all to watch every single one in it's entirety. :mrgreen:
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Thanks Brendhan for all this.
I saved the videos I want to go back and watch.
Thank you I plan on sitting down and watching them all
thanks for taking the time to share this with us Brendan.these are all full of good info.thanks again bill
Brendon,
This is great! I'm taking BeeMaster Class in Chattanooga, TN next three days. I'm sure it won't be as detailed as what you have seen. Great videos!
Mark
Great videos Brendhan. Some of the Tallahassee folks were there also...
...DOUG